Led by Daniel Won, BS (Northwestern Medicine), and published recently in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, the retrospective ...

The mitral valve clip, which is marketed in the U.S. as the MitraClip, is a minimally invasive, non-surgical alternative used to repair a damaged mitral heart valve. The mitral valve clip procedure ...

TULSA, Okla. — A new procedure at the Oklahoma Heart Institute is changing lives for people at high risk for heart surgery. “That’s why it’s so ground breaking and important. This is the first such ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among those requiring mitral valve surgery, Black patients were less likely to undergo a minimally invasive ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: Is minimally invasive heart surgery to repair a mitral valve a safer option than open-heart surgery? Is it common for a surgeon to have to switch to an open-heart procedure after ...

Background The use of artificial chords for mitral valve prolapse during minimally invasive mitral valve repair (MIMVR) has ...

Medtronic announced today that it received FDA approval for its Mosaic Neo mitral bioprosthesis and began its U.S. launch.

PHOENIX, AZ—Clinical outcomes for patients treated with a mitral valve-in-valve (ViV) procedure have continued to get better in the wake of US Food and Drug Administration approval for high-risk ...

Greg Denning has never really liked going to the doctor, and for most of his life he's been an active person who was able to avoid significant medical care. That started to change one day when he and ...

A new multicenter study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery finds that reoperative surgical mitral valve replacement ...

In patients with a poorly functioning bioprosthetic mitral valve in the heart, a minimally invasive procedure to insert a new valve was associated with a lower rate of death or disabling stroke within ...

Inside the four chambers of your heart is a system designed to pump blood throughout your body. When that system works properly, blood flows through two chambers on the right side of your heart, then ...